Essay: A chance to look at Rochester in a different way

1:00 AM,
Dec. 29, 2012

Written by

Elizabeth Randisi

When I told my parents I was moving to Webster to be with my now-husband, my dad started sending me newspaper clippings about Kodak's woes. Yes, the biggest manufacturers in town are closing their doors, but there is plenty of innovation and industry to be found here, at the University of Rochester, Pictometry and elsewhere.

So it's not the financial problems of Rochester that I'd fix if I had a magic wand. It's the violence that seems to be everywhere, and our attitudes toward it, that I would attack first.

On Christmas Eve, I received concerned phone calls and emails from family and friends ...